:00:00. > :00:14.perhaps 48 hours of drier weather for many of us. But between now and
:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight:
:00:18. > :00:19.Are private companies encouraging benefit tourism by helping migrants
:00:20. > :00:22.to claim? The election blunder in
:00:23. > :00:28.Cambridgeshire which could mean the wrong candidate was announced the
:00:29. > :00:32.winner. Return to the classroom. A big day
:00:33. > :00:36.for the Duke of Cambridge as he starts his new course.
:00:37. > :00:46.And six months and counting. The region gets ready for the Tour de
:00:47. > :00:49.France. Private companies that charge
:00:50. > :00:55.migrants in our region for help in claiming benefits should be better
:00:56. > :00:58.investigated. That's the claim of the MP for Peterborough. Stewart
:00:59. > :01:01.Jackson fears at best they are exploiting the migrants and at worst
:01:02. > :01:13.encouraging what he calls benefit tourists.
:01:14. > :01:19.People from all and, Latvia and Rumania `` Poland. Some people won't
:01:20. > :01:29.support and they are willing to pay for it. There are numerous places
:01:30. > :01:35.along here you can pay for help in filling out forms. Sometimes it is
:01:36. > :01:45.?10. Sometimes more. This woman moved here ten years ago. She paid
:01:46. > :01:56.for help for filling in forms. It was 120 four child revenue and tax
:01:57. > :01:59.credit. She thinks it was too much. Today, the MP for Peterborough has
:02:00. > :02:04.called for these types of businesses to be investigated. I think they
:02:05. > :02:10.need to get the regulatory forces, such as people in charge of
:02:11. > :02:15.licensing, to be ensuring that people are not exploited. It is not
:02:16. > :02:18.a good image for Peterborough. We want working people who are sold
:02:19. > :02:25.sufficient and making a contribution. We don't want benefit
:02:26. > :02:31.tourists. This advice centre opened in Peterborough this week. For 60 a
:02:32. > :02:38.year, migrants will be told about employment rights, benefits and how
:02:39. > :02:55.to find a GP. Fiona says she is here to help, not rip people off. A lot
:02:56. > :03:00.of people are helping. But others are taking too much of a cup. Was a
:03:01. > :03:06.huge market. There are a lot of vulnerable people at there. The
:03:07. > :03:10.citizens advice bureau can offer some help for free. In communities
:03:11. > :03:15.like this, many migrants are paying private companies instead.
:03:16. > :03:19.So why are migrants paying for help they could get free of charge?
:03:20. > :03:22.Martin Lord Is from the Citizen s Advice Bureau in Northampton. He
:03:23. > :03:25.told me that many private companies are run by migrants themselves and
:03:26. > :03:32.so they are more appealing. But I asked if the CAB should advertise
:03:33. > :03:36.its services more. We do make ourselves fairly well
:03:37. > :03:43.known amongst the migrant community. There is a lot of information on our
:03:44. > :03:49.website in a range of languages And we so questions that migrants
:03:50. > :03:53.frequently ask us. The vast majority of people who seek advice from our
:03:54. > :03:59.service asking about employment issues and not necessarily those
:04:00. > :04:04.regarding Social Security benefit and tax credit. When I think about
:04:05. > :04:08.the frequently asked questions, it is about not being paid at work
:04:09. > :04:16.about were men who become pregnant being dismissed by their employer
:04:17. > :04:25.and so on. It's not that the vast majority of migrants are benefit
:04:26. > :04:30.tourists? We don't see a great deal of evidence for that. Things might
:04:31. > :04:38.change in terms of new migrants but there are strong restrictions placed
:04:39. > :04:45.on what new migrant communities from Romania and Bulgaria can claim.
:04:46. > :04:52.Those from Poland and with the Waimea are potentially younger and
:04:53. > :04:56.speak reasonably good English `` Lithuania. They are prone to being
:04:57. > :05:04.exploited in the workplace or by private landlords. Have you had many
:05:05. > :05:09.Romanians and Bulgarians coming to you for help yet? There has been a
:05:10. > :05:16.trickle. Not since January, but historically because there have been
:05:17. > :05:22.a number of people who have been working here on a self`employed
:05:23. > :05:25.basis. Does it concern you that some private companies are charging
:05:26. > :05:31.migrants hundreds of pounds for help filling in these forms? It does It
:05:32. > :05:37.is difficult to separate the issue of giving advice on employment
:05:38. > :05:41.issues and Social Security and the process of actually filling in
:05:42. > :05:46.forms. I would imagine that many of these providers are not in any way
:05:47. > :05:53.qualified to provide the support and are preying on people is former
:05:54. > :05:57.abilities and might actually end up giving people the wrong advice in
:05:58. > :06:00.the process. We will continue to do our best to help all the communities
:06:01. > :06:04.we serve, including those from abroad.
:06:05. > :06:07.Members of the Conservative Party in Cambridgeshire will hold a special
:06:08. > :06:11.meeting this week to discuss claims that they may have chosen the wrong
:06:12. > :06:14.candidate to represent them at the next election. There are suggestions
:06:15. > :06:16.that the votes weren't properly counted during last month's
:06:17. > :06:19.selection. Our political correspondent is in our newsroom.
:06:20. > :06:27.This is all rather embarrassing so what happened?
:06:28. > :06:32.A lot of conservatives in the south`east are quite angry about
:06:33. > :06:35.this. They really tried hard to be open and transparent when it came to
:06:36. > :06:41.choosing a successor to Sir James Pace. Last month, they held an open
:06:42. > :06:46.primary and asked members of the public to help them choose. They
:06:47. > :06:51.chose Lucy Fraser, a London barrister highly regarded by the
:06:52. > :06:54.party hierarchy. She was not the favourite to win locally. It was
:06:55. > :07:02.only later on that they discovered some of the folks in her bundle had
:07:03. > :07:10.been cast for another candidate It was probably an innocent mistake,
:07:11. > :07:15.but it does call the verdict into question. They're having a special
:07:16. > :07:23.meeting to officially re`endorse Lucy Fraser. She was not the
:07:24. > :07:26.favourite. Supporters of at least one other candidate are saying they
:07:27. > :07:30.are going to call for the whole election to be rerun. If that
:07:31. > :07:43.happens, it will be embarrassing for the party. Hierarchy are saying this
:07:44. > :07:49.is a local matter and if it needs a second election, so be it. But the
:07:50. > :07:52.local Conservative Party will not want that to happen.
:07:53. > :07:55.All but two of our hospitals met the Accident and Emergency waiting times
:07:56. > :07:58.over the Christmas week according to figures out today. The number of
:07:59. > :08:00.patients fell slightly over the festive period, which may have
:08:01. > :08:03.helped. This is the target that all
:08:04. > :08:06.hospitals are expected to hit. 5% of emergency patients should be
:08:07. > :08:09.treated within four hours. According to NHS England, these hospitals all
:08:10. > :08:12.failed to achieve that. The worst performing here was Northampton
:08:13. > :08:15.General. But Milton Keynes is an unusual case because even though the
:08:16. > :08:18.A department itself missed the target, the hospital also has an
:08:19. > :08:22.urgent care centre which looks after less serious injuries. Taking those
:08:23. > :08:27.figures into the mix, Milton Keynes as a whole did meet the target at
:08:28. > :08:33.nearly 97%. But these hospitals without question performed well The
:08:34. > :08:35.best in the region were Hinchingbrooke and the Luton and
:08:36. > :08:40.Dunstable, which despite high demands achieved 98.4%. The BBC has
:08:41. > :08:44.learned that A departments across the country have a number of
:08:45. > :08:48.patients who repeatedly turn up One patient at Luton and Dunstable went
:08:49. > :08:55.to casualty 234 times over the course of the year. That is more
:08:56. > :08:58.than every second day. Even now a week into the new year many
:08:59. > :09:05.hospitals are still struggling with unusually high numbers of patients.
:09:06. > :09:08.Peterborough, Milton Keynes and Addenbrooke's Hospital are all on
:09:09. > :09:15.black alert at the moment, meaning there's a serious shortage of beds.
:09:16. > :09:19.I think patients are probably experiencing two major issues.
:09:20. > :09:24.People are having to wait a little longer in A departments before
:09:25. > :09:28.getting access to treatment. Secondly, unfortunately we have had
:09:29. > :09:32.to cancel a number of people for routine surgery in the last five or
:09:33. > :09:36.six days. But the concern now is how will hospitals cope if the weather
:09:37. > :09:39.takes a turn for the worst? It's been a very mild winter so far, but
:09:40. > :09:41.pressure always increases during a cold snap.
:09:42. > :09:45.There's also news today about children's services at Bedford
:09:46. > :09:48.Hospital. A report into the problems in paediatrics last summer which led
:09:49. > :09:53.to services being suspended says leadership at the time was weak It
:09:54. > :09:59.says the hospital board effectively ignored the safety concerns of
:10:00. > :10:02.junior doctors. Today the hospital told us many of the concerns have
:10:03. > :10:06.already been addressed. Five organisations have thrown their
:10:07. > :10:09.hats into the ring for a ?1 billion contract to run health care for the
:10:10. > :10:12.elderly in Cambridgeshire. It is the largest outsourcing contract in NHS
:10:13. > :10:25.history. But protest groups say it will put patients and the NHS at
:10:26. > :10:39.risk. A feisty former nurse stopping
:10:40. > :10:43.traffic to state her case. The public are not assured of what is
:10:44. > :10:50.going on. We hope to educate them at the same time. The campaigners say
:10:51. > :10:58.health care services in Cambridgeshire should stay within
:10:59. > :11:07.the NHS. Today the clinical listing group announced the short list.
:11:08. > :11:15.So far, we have had some interesting and exciting conversations that have
:11:16. > :11:19.not happened in the last 15 years of the NHS about how organisations can
:11:20. > :11:24.really make a difference for patients when looking after all of
:11:25. > :11:30.our health care. This is not the first time this has happened.
:11:31. > :11:40.Hitting brick hospital became the first privately run NHS hospital in
:11:41. > :11:51.the country in 2012. `` hitting brick. There are fears that could
:11:52. > :11:58.set a precedent for other commissioning groups across the
:11:59. > :12:07.country. This could ultimately lead to the break`up of the NHS. That is
:12:08. > :12:17.whoever wins the contract would have to do meet fierce NHS standards
:12:18. > :12:21.Station staff on Greater Anglia s West Anglia route have voted to go
:12:22. > :12:24.on strike. Around a hundred members of the Rail Maritime and Transport
:12:25. > :12:27.union are involved in the dispute. It's in a row over flexible working
:12:28. > :12:31.and claims that proper procedures were ignored. Union members backed a
:12:32. > :12:31.campaign of industrial action by nine to
:12:32. > :12:42.work that could stop it happening again.
:12:43. > :12:48.Still to come, a new project designed by a mother and daughter
:12:49. > :12:57.from Norfolk to combat bullying in schools. Plus the white van man
:12:58. > :13:00.turning muck into masterpieces. Students have been arriving back in
:13:01. > :13:03.Cambridge for the start of the new term, but one in particular has
:13:04. > :13:07.attracted quite a bit of attention because he happens to be second in
:13:08. > :13:10.line to the throne. Yes, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, was
:13:11. > :13:24.getting settled in today, as he begins a ten`week course in
:13:25. > :13:27.agriculture. Ben Bland reports. It is a university city that is rich
:13:28. > :13:34.in royal connections, with college names like kings and queens, you do
:13:35. > :13:38.not need a first to work that out. Today the latest royal student
:13:39. > :13:42.arrived, Prince William. He will be studying agriculture on a course
:13:43. > :13:48.that has been designed just for him. What you think about him coming here
:13:49. > :13:54.to study? It is great. It is a nice environment for everybody. Good luck
:13:55. > :13:58.to him. It does not really bother me too much. I think it is great. What
:13:59. > :14:09.would you see if you bumped into him? Fort would I say? Hi! Of course
:14:10. > :14:14.he's not the first member of the rail family to study at Cambridge.
:14:15. > :14:23.The college itself was founded by King Henry VIII `` first member of
:14:24. > :14:27.the Royal family. Some students had accused the
:14:28. > :14:31.University of giving the future King special treatment, allowing him in
:14:32. > :14:38.with A`level grades of eight, B and C. Today that criticism was
:14:39. > :14:41.withdrawn. The ten week course will help him to run the Duchy of
:14:42. > :14:48.Cornwall, the farmland that his father will handover. It is good
:14:49. > :14:52.that he wants to study with real experts and I understand that it is
:14:53. > :14:57.interdisciplinary and focuses on architecture, agriculture, planning,
:14:58. > :15:06.leadership. It strikes a lot of chords as a good way to prepare. At
:15:07. > :15:11.the nearby college of West Anglia the hope that it will inspire
:15:12. > :15:17.others. You need to be good at maths and science, it is not just for
:15:18. > :15:25.people who have nothing else to do. It is a very high`tech business. The
:15:26. > :15:34.Royal student will have his knows in his book, but East didn't say that
:15:35. > :15:39.he can get some practical experience down at their farm `` but these
:15:40. > :15:43.students say. It's six months to the day until the
:15:44. > :15:46.world's biggest bike race passes through our region. Stage three of
:15:47. > :15:49.the Tour de France goes through Cambridge and on to London.
:15:50. > :15:52.So let's remind ourselves of the route. The riders will cycle through
:15:53. > :15:55.the centre of Cambridge before heading south into Essex. Here the
:15:56. > :15:58.route will take them along smaller roads, through villages, before
:15:59. > :16:00.joining the A104 into London, finishing outside Buckingham Palace.
:16:01. > :16:05.Our sports editor Jonathan Park reports on six months to go.
:16:06. > :16:08.For Luke Hennessy, 2014 is a very important year. It is the year that
:16:09. > :16:12.he is trying to make it as a professional cyclist. It is also the
:16:13. > :16:17.year that the world's biggest cycle race comes to his home city,
:16:18. > :16:21.Cambridge. It is massive, it has never happened before, it will never
:16:22. > :16:27.happen again, it will come to Cambridge, more than likely. It is a
:16:28. > :16:32.once`in`a`lifetime opportunity. Next week he is off to Europe to race
:16:33. > :16:44.against seasoned pros in the hope of landing a contract. Words cannot
:16:45. > :16:48.describe it. Who would have thought that it would happen, the tour
:16:49. > :16:54.coming to Cambridge. Just back it as much as you can. This is where stage
:16:55. > :16:58.three of the true difference starts exactly six months today before
:16:59. > :17:01.heading to Essex and London. It is hard to believe that this park will
:17:02. > :17:07.be a sea of cyclist and their support staff for the teams, around
:17:08. > :17:09.2000 in total, plus there will be thousands of spectators and
:17:10. > :17:14.everything else that goes with staging one of the biggest aborting
:17:15. > :17:23.events on the planet. `` sporting events. Six months today, the true
:17:24. > :17:28.difference starts here. Does it? A surprise. Did you know it was
:17:29. > :17:38.coming? Yes, definitely. Did you know? Now, I did not. `` no, I did
:17:39. > :17:49.not. Some in the know, some no wiser. The council today said that
:17:50. > :17:52.the big push start in spring. From roundabout March and own words it is
:17:53. > :17:59.going to become very obvious that the true difference is coming to
:18:00. > :18:04.Cambridge. `` and own words. For Luke and his team`mates, they
:18:05. > :18:08.started the day with a six mile ride. Their thoughts may just have
:18:09. > :18:15.wondered however to seeing their rivals in July.
:18:16. > :18:18.Three`time Olympic medallist Louis Smith has announced that he's
:18:19. > :18:21.returning to full`time training in an attempt to qualify for this
:18:22. > :18:24.year's Commonwealth Games. Louis is from Peterborough but trains in
:18:25. > :18:27.Huntingdon. He says he'd thought the London Olympics would be his last
:18:28. > :18:29.competition, but now says he has "unfinished business" with the
:18:30. > :18:32.sport. I mean, I am confident I can get my
:18:33. > :18:38.pommel horse back to a level where it can be considered for the team.
:18:39. > :18:41.Whether it is what the team are looking for, whether they want more
:18:42. > :18:46.all`rounders, whether I can prove that I am better than the youngsters
:18:47. > :18:50.that are in the team that are doing great at pommel horse, I don't know.
:18:51. > :18:55.It will be hard to make the team, all I can do is get back to a level
:18:56. > :19:01.where I feel good and I am producing medal winning routines.
:19:02. > :19:05.The young pop star Ronan Parke came on Look East last week to talk about
:19:06. > :19:08.his new anti`bullying single. Ronan told us how he was bullied on social
:19:09. > :19:13.networking sites after finding fame in Britain's Got Talent. I think
:19:14. > :19:18.that with cyber bullying it is a thing that it can be so ruthless and
:19:19. > :19:21.you cannot see people's reactions to it. That is why I think it is a very
:19:22. > :19:27.bad case of bullying. All of them are full, but because you cannot see
:19:28. > :19:31.the reactions you do not understand how people are dealing with it ``
:19:32. > :19:34.all of them are terrible. After seeing the interview, a family in
:19:35. > :19:37.Norfolk got in touch to tell us they've designed a programme for
:19:38. > :19:41.schools to stop bullying before it starts. Bullying Stinkz is the first
:19:42. > :19:43.of its kind in the UK and teaches young children to celebrate each
:19:44. > :19:46.other's differences. Jacqui Hitchcock`Wyatt and her
:19:47. > :19:49.daughter Ellie are here with us now. Thank you for coming in. First of
:19:50. > :19:54.all, why as a family have you decided to do this? I think it is
:19:55. > :19:58.because of their personal experiences. I have twins who are 16
:19:59. > :20:02.and they were believed from the age of three. For eight years they were
:20:03. > :20:05.relentlessly bullied at four different schools here in Norwich.
:20:06. > :20:09.We could do nothing about it. The school could not deal with it, we
:20:10. > :20:14.did not know what to do about it, my parents did not know. We were
:20:15. > :20:18.distraught, the whole family went into meltdown because we could not
:20:19. > :20:22.deal with it. It got a point where we were all very well and we had to
:20:23. > :20:26.make a decision as a family that we would try to do something that would
:20:27. > :20:30.stop this to other families. So you have created this programme which
:20:31. > :20:35.will go into schools and preschools. From a young person's perspective,
:20:36. > :20:40.how will it work? It will help people from a young age to feel good
:20:41. > :20:44.about themselves and to celebrate their differences and the
:20:45. > :20:49.differences in their peers. It will help them feel good about themselves
:20:50. > :21:00.and give them confidence. The title of the programme is called Great As
:21:01. > :21:05.You Are. The whole idea is that we should celebrate differences. It is
:21:06. > :21:08.learned behaviour. It is learned behaviour, and the frightening thing
:21:09. > :21:12.is that it is increasing and it is starting at younger. People are
:21:13. > :21:15.arriving at school is knowing how to bully already, that is because they
:21:16. > :21:19.have learned it from their environments. This programme is to
:21:20. > :21:26.help parents, young children, teachers, to make sure that they
:21:27. > :21:29.know how to use other forms of behaviour. You have tested it for
:21:30. > :21:35.quite some time, there are preschools, schools, looking at
:21:36. > :21:40.taking it up? We have been trialling it for several years and we have an
:21:41. > :21:43.incredible team of experts. Lots of schools that are actually helping us
:21:44. > :21:49.with the programme, so it has all been tested for four years and now
:21:50. > :21:53.we go into schools and nurseries this September. It is ready to go.
:21:54. > :22:01.What you need to happen for it to be taken up by schools? In order for it
:22:02. > :22:06.to be taken up by schools, obviously we believe in it, but I think that
:22:07. > :22:11.the headteachers and people in the school need to believe in the
:22:12. > :22:15.cause, and I think having them wanting to help, I think that
:22:16. > :22:17.everybody really wants to stop being and that desire is going to make
:22:18. > :22:22.them want to get involved in this programme. Good luck with the
:22:23. > :22:28.programme, thank you very much for coming on and telling us all about
:22:29. > :22:31.it. It was Banksy who made graffiti art
:22:32. > :22:33.famous. He's said to have made millions, but we still don't know
:22:34. > :22:38.his identity. Well, now there's a new kid on the
:22:39. > :22:40.block. His name is Ruddy Muddy and he's from Norfolk. Ruddy is
:22:41. > :22:47.pioneering the use of muddy white vans to create art and Mike Liggins
:22:48. > :22:50.has been to meet him. This is Ruddy Muddy inaction working
:22:51. > :22:58.on a particularly grubby Forge transit. But for him, mud and grain
:22:59. > :23:01.is what he needs. His true identity is at closely guarded secret. He
:23:02. > :23:08.works quickly and with a bit of old tissue paper can create a mountain
:23:09. > :23:11.scene of great beauty. I had a bit of time on my hands and I was
:23:12. > :23:14.getting fed up with people rating all kinds of weird things on Van
:23:15. > :23:20.Zandt thought it would be interesting to play around ``
:23:21. > :23:31.writing all kinds of weird things on vans. We only joking about the
:23:32. > :23:38.identity thing, Ruddy Muddy is really a van driver and amateur
:23:39. > :23:47.artist. His van and what he calls his grafilthy art has been spotted
:23:48. > :23:53.all over the region. I have had people contact me from all over, a
:23:54. > :23:59.few in Cambridge as well. So your fame is spreading? The art certainly
:24:00. > :24:04.is, I do not know about the fame. Ruddy Muddy's parties also portable.
:24:05. > :24:11.We wanted to know what the great British public made of it, so we
:24:12. > :24:14.took his van to a car park. I think it is great, brilliant. It is with
:24:15. > :24:18.the good, better than the usual stuff on the side of a van that you
:24:19. > :24:26.would see. You don't do any kind of that stuff? I don't think I could do
:24:27. > :24:33.that. But not the rude stuff. No, not at all.
:24:34. > :24:43.He makes it look easy, but it is not. But here is a little portrait
:24:44. > :24:49.of our presenters. It is uncanny! It is like looking in
:24:50. > :24:51.the mirror. Thankfully the rain will watch that away. Will there be some
:24:52. > :25:00.rain to wash off that masterpiece? There may be. Part of America and
:25:01. > :25:10.Canada have been plunged into exceptionally cold temperatures ``
:25:11. > :25:14.parts. It has led to an abnormal jet stream which has pushed wet and
:25:15. > :25:20.windy weather our direction. We have also had milder conditions. Our
:25:21. > :25:27.warmest spot yesterday was 13 Celsius. It is early January, it
:25:28. > :25:32.should be more like six Celsius. We got to 12 Celsius in certain parts
:25:33. > :25:37.of Essex. We have also had unsettled weather, a lot of showers this
:25:38. > :25:41.morning and some of you may have experienced heavy downpours with
:25:42. > :25:46.heel mix in. There are some showers just across the western half, but
:25:47. > :25:52.they make make their way into parts of Northamptonshire. The rain moves
:25:53. > :25:57.up from the south`west, that might affect parts of Suffolk and Essex
:25:58. > :26:02.across the eastern side. Essentially it is a largely night with clear
:26:03. > :26:07.spells and lows of six or seven Celsius. At this time of year you
:26:08. > :26:11.should really be down to around freezing. Still quite breezy as well
:26:12. > :26:15.with the moderate `south`westerly. Tomorrow it does not look like a bad
:26:16. > :26:25.aid. It will be dry, with sunny spells through the morning. `` a bad
:26:26. > :26:29.day. Not a bad winter's Day at all. It changes subtly into the
:26:30. > :26:33.afternoon, increasing cloud will eventually bring us some patchy rain
:26:34. > :26:36.that will move through overnight. It is looking like a wet night forward
:26:37. > :26:44.and is the night into Thursday morning. This area of low pressure
:26:45. > :26:48.is bringing in that wet weather. Then we look ahead to the Outlook.
:26:49. > :26:54.We may well start a little bit cloudy and wet on Thursday. It is
:26:55. > :26:57.also looking quite breezy for Thursday. It settles down for Friday
:26:58. > :27:04.and Saturday. It will be a bit cooler, there will be some sunny
:27:05. > :27:08.spells around by the time we get to Saturday. There will be the return
:27:09. > :27:14.of some overnight frost. We are back with Stargazing, that will be on for
:27:15. > :27:17.three nights, make sure that you tune in at 8pm this evening. The
:27:18. > :27:24.weather for stargazing tonight is looking good, a bit more cloud
:27:25. > :27:27.around, a little bit wet. Just time to tell you a little bit
:27:28. > :27:31.more about the Stargazing programme which is coming to you live from
:27:32. > :27:36.Norwich. Thousands of people are expected to come along to the Forum,
:27:37. > :27:39.we will bring you all of the build`up tomorrow. People are
:27:40. > :27:42.working hard to make sure it is built on time.
:27:43. > :28:10.That is all for now. Goodbye. A tenth of a second
:28:11. > :28:14.could be the difference